Head of construction department of Russian Interior Ministry killed in Moscow

The police established identity of a man, whose body with gunshot wounds was found on Osennyaya Street in western Moscow, a source in law enforcement agencies told Interfax on Tuesday.

“This is Nikolai Volkov, the head of repair and construction department of the Interior Ministry of Russia”, — the agency’s interlocutor specified. According to him, the priority version of the investigation remains with assault and robbery.

“According to investigators, on the 27th of March 2017, approximately at 22:30, unidentified persons attacked a man of 1975 birth year near a residential house on Osennyaya Street in Moscow. They and stole his bag last and then fired shots, from which the man died on the scene”, a representative of the Moscow department of the Russian Investigative Committee, Yulia Ivanova, said.